(or profits of every spiritual living for one year), and the tenths (or tenth part of the yearly value of such living), which had before been paid to the Pope. This act of parliament enjoined the lord chancellor, bishops, and other commissioners to inquire into the value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment in the several dioceses of England and Wales. The returns made by them fill many volumes and rolls, which have been deposited in the Office of Firstfruits and Tenths, from the reign of Henry VIII. to the present time and according to the valuation in these returns, incumbents now pay their respective first-fruits and tenths, which form the perpetual fund for the augmentation of poor livings under the annual value of 50l., known under the name of Queen Anne's Bounty. PLACITORUM in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi asservatorum Abbreviatio, temp. Reg. Ric. I. Johannis, Hen. III. Edw. I. et Edw. II. folio, Londini, 1811. [Kk. 1. 1.]

This volume contains abstracts of pleadings preserved in the Chapter-house at Westminster, during the reigns of Richard I., John, Henry III., and Edward I. and II.; which were made from the original pleadings by Mr. Arthur Agard, and other keepers of such records during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. They comprise much important matter relating to petitions of right, and also to the parliament and Concilium Regis, besides very many curious and interesting particulars concerning the law, history, and customs of the country, especially the preservation of the records of the kingdom during the turbulent part of the reign of Edward the Second, and the functions of juries. Jurors, it appears, were often required by the court, which they were summoned to attend, to state the reason for their verdict. Special verdicts were not unfrequent, and in cases of attaint they were frequently called in question, reviewed, corrected, and set aside.

ROTULI HUNDREDORUM, temp. Reg. Hen. III. et Edw. I. in Turri Londinensi et in Curia Receptæ Scaccarii Westm. asservati. 2 tomis, folio, London, 1812-18. [Ff. 1. 36,37.]

These records are deposited partly in the Tower of London, and in the Chapter-house at Westminster, and belong to the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. As the revenues of the Crown had been considerably diminished under various pretexts, and numerous abuses and exactions had also been committed against the people during the turbulent reign of Henry III., King Edward I. shortly after his accession instituted an inquiry into these offences; and as the circuit of the justices itinerant (who generally went but once in seven years) would not return till the sixth year of his reign, he issued a special commission under the Great Seal, in the second year of his reign, authorising certain officers to inquire into the abuses above noticed. After the commissioners had, in the third year, returned their rolls of inquisitions, it was necessary for the Court of Exchequer to have in one view such parts of the returns as affected the rights of the crown and the malpractices of its officers. The requisite extracts were accordingly made in certain rolls, from which the crown was furnished, among other things, with evidence upon oath of a jury of each hundred (whence the name of Hundred Rolls is derived) and town in every county, stating all the demesne lands of the crown, what manors, &c. formerly in the hands of the sovereign, were then in the possession of other persons, and how they were

alienated; accounts of tenants in capite and in antient demesne, and of the losses of military services, &c. sustained by the crown in consequence of sub-infeudations granted by such tenants in capite, alienations to the church, under the pretext of gifts in frankalmoigne, oppressions and exactions of various kinds by the nobility, clergy, sheriffs, and other officers, under colour of law.

PLACITA de Quo Warranto, temp. Reg. Edw. I. II. et III. in Curià Receptæ Scaccarii Westm. asservata. folio, Londini, 1818. [Ff. 1. 38.]

The Statute of Gloucester was passed in the sixth year of the reign of Edward I., and the first chapter of it, which relates to franchises, liberties, and quo warranto, was founded on the previous inquiries made under this commission. Immediately after the passing of this statute, the stated period of the circuit in eyre returned; and on the justices going their iter, writs of right and quo warranto were issued very generally against such persons as claimed manors, liberties, &c. where the jurors had previously said upon oath before the inquisitors in 3 Edward I. Nesciunt quo warranto' the parties held or claimed, and also where they said that the party held or claimed sine warranto. The pleadings before these justices are entered on certain rolls, preserved in the Chapter-House at Westminster, which are denominated QUO WARRANTO ROLLS. Two volumes of the Hundred Rolls, for the period above noticed, and one volume of the Quo Warranto Rolls, during the reigns of Edward I. II. and HI. have been printed and their great importance and utility are strongly proved by the frequent references in courts of law to these pleadings, upon questions arising, in modern times, respecting boundaries, franchises, descents of manors or advowsons, and rights claimed under royal charters by lay and ecclesiastical persons. Many obscure passages and obsolete words in charters are repeatedly explained; and much learning, illustrative of the laws and customs of the country, both useful and interesting to the lawyer and the antiquary, will be found dispersed through these works.

DUCATUS LANCASTRIE.-Pars Prima. Calendarium Inquisitionum post Mortem, &c. Temporibus Regum Edw. I. Edw. III. Ric. II. Hen. V. Hen. VI. Edw. IV. Hen. VII. Edw. VI. Regin. Mar. Phil. et Mar. Eliz. Jac. I. Car. I.-Pars Secunda. A Calendar to the Pleadings, &c. in the Reigns of Hen. VII. Hen. VIII. Edw. VI. Queen Mary, and Philip and Mary. [Vol. I.] folio, London, 1824. [I. 10. 14.]

This volume consists of two parts: (1) A Calendar of the Inquisitiones post Mortem, 3569 in number, which are similar in their nature to those noticed in page 491, and are preserved in the Office of the Duchy of Lancaster. They begin with the first year of King Henry V. 1413, and end with the eighteenth year of King Charles I. 1642-(2) Pleadings, consisting of Bills, Answers, and Depositions, and Surveys in Suits exhibited in the Duchy Court. These commence with the first year of King Henry VII., and are continued to the present time. The Calendar, now published, extends from the earliest date of these pleadings to the reign of Philip and Mary, and forms the second part of this volume. The Calendars to the remaining part of these pleadings will be given in the second volume. (Preface.)

4. General Treatises, Institutes, and Commentaries on the Laws of England, Dictionaries of English Law, and Judges' Charges.

THE DIALOGES in English betweene a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Lawes of England, newly corrected and imprinted with new Addicions. [By Christopher Saint GERMAIN.] 12mo. London, 1576.

Another Copy. 12mo. London, 1598.
Another Copy. 12mo. London, 1673.

[K. 8. 41.]

[I. 8. 15.]

[D. 17. 5.]

LYTTYLTON'S Tenures, newly revised, and truly corrected. 12mo. London, 1554. [K. 8. 43.]

COKE (Sir Edward) The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England; or a Commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the Author only, but of the Law itselfe. folio, London, 1639. [H. 5. 6.]

The Second and Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England containing the Exposition of many Ancient and other Statutes, and concerning High Treason and other Pleas of the Crown and Criminal Causes. folio, 1642-44. [H. 5. 7,8.]

*Coke (Sir Edward) Institutes of the Laws of England, complete; with the Annotations of Francis Hargrave and Charles Butler, Esqrs. on the First Institute. 7 vols. royal 8vo. London, 1817.

BACON (Sir Francis) The Elements of the Common Laws of England. 4to. London, 1636. [H. 7. 5.]

+GROUNDS and Maxims of the Laws of England. 4to. London, 1641. CLERKE (Francisci) Praxis Curiæ Admiralitatis Angliæ. 8vo. Londini, 1667. [D. 15. 51.]

COWELLI (Johannis) Institutiones Juris Anglicani, ad Methodum et Seriem Institutionum Imperialium compositæ et digestæ. 8vo. Oxoniæ, 1676. [K. 16. 10.]

Cowelli (Johannis) Institutiones Juris Anglici. 8vo. Cantabrigiæ, 1605. [D. 15. 48.] 3 vols. 8vo. In

WOOD (Thomas) An Institute of the Laws of England. the Savoy, 1720. [C. 6. 21-23.] BLACKSTONE (Sir William) Commentaries on the Laws of England. Fifteenth Edition. With Notes by Edward Christian, Esq. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1809. [Gg. 6. 31-34.]

Twelfth Edition. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1793. [E. 6. 15-18.] Commentaries. 4 vols. 4to. Oxford, 1765–69. [O. 5. 34-37.] PRIESTLEY (Joseph) Remarks on some Paragraphs in the Fourth Volume of Dr. Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" relating to Dissenters. 8vo. London, 1769. [P. 300. (1.)]

A Reply to Dr. Priestley's Remarks on the Fourth Volume of the Commentaries on the Laws of England. By the Author of the Commentaries. 8vo. London, 1769. [P. 300. (2.)]

A Letter to Dr. Blackstone occasioned by a certain Passage in his Commentaries on the Laws of England concerning the Character of the Ecclesiastics of the present Age. Svo. London, 1770. [P. 300. (3.)]

FURNEAUX (Philip) Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone on his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some Positions relative to Religious Liberty, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. 8vo. London, 1770. [P. 246. (6.)

AN OBJECTION against a Review of the Liturgy and other Ecclesiastical Forms considered in several Letters to a Divine of the Church of England, and the whole now submitted to the impartial after-thoughts of William Blackstone, Esq. 8vo. London, 1770. [P. 246. (7.)]

*SEDGWICK (James) Remarks on the Commentaries of Sir Wm. Blackstone. 4to. London, 1808.

*Rowe (Wm. Henry) A Vindication of the Commentaries of Sir Wm. Blackstone, against Mr. Sedgwick's Strictures. 8vo. London, 1806. *Blackstone (Sir William) Commentaries; with Notes by J. T. Coleridge, Barrister-at-Law. 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1825.

CHRISTIAN (Edward) Syllabus, or Heads of Lectures on the Laws of England. 8vo. London, 1797. [Hh. 2. 33.]

Another Copy. 8vo. London, 1811. [Hh. 7. 28.]

LES TERMES DE LA LEY, or Obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws expounded. 8vo. London, 1667. [D. 15. 44.]

BLOUNT (Thomas) Law Dictionary and Glossary. folio, London, 1670. [C. 13. 28.]

JACOB (Giles) A New Law Dictionary. folio, London, 1739. [N. 2. 29.] Jacob (Giles) Law Dictionary. folio, London, 1756. [Ff. 3. 25.] *TOMLINE (Sir T. E.) A Law Dictionary, explaining the Rise, Progress, and present State of the British Law. Third Edition. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1820.

*WYNNE (Edward) Eunomus: or Dialogues concerning the Law and Constitution of England, with an Essay on Dialogue. Fifth Edition, with numerous additional Notes by M. Bythewood. 2 vols. 18mo. London, 1822.

LOVELL (Mr. Baron) Charge to the Grand Jury for the County of Devon,
April 5, 1710. 8vo. London, 1710. [M. 19. 27.]

ASHURST (Mr. Justice) Charge to the Grand Jury for the County of Mid-
dlesex, Nov. 19, 1792. 8vo. London, 1792. [Hh. 2. 25.]
CHRISTIAN (Edward) Charge to the Grand
March 9, 1804. 4to. Cambridge, 1804.

Another Copy. 4to. Cambridge,

Jury of Ely at the Assizes, [Ff. 3. 66.]

1804. [Gg. 1. 14.]

Grand Juries in the Isle of

Christian (Edward) Charges delivered to the
Ely upon Libels, &c. 8vo. London, 1819. [Gg. 6. 39.]

5. Reports of Proceedings in the different Courts of

Law,

(Chronologically arranged.)

YELVERTON (Sir Henry) Reports de divers Speciall Cases en le Court del Bank le Roy, en le Temps del Reigne du Roign Elizabeth, et en les premier dix ans del Roy Jaques. folio, Londres, 1661. [I. 1. 16.]

ROLLE (Henry) Les Reports de divers Cases en le Court del Banke le Roy, en le Temps del Reign de Roy Jaques. folio, Londres, 1675.

[I. 2. 24.] Rolle (Henry) Un Abridgment des Plusieurs Cases et Resolutions del Common Ley. folio, Londres, 1668. [G. 11. 20.]

CROKE (Sir George) Reports of Select Cases in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas during the Reigns of Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I. written originally in French. Revised and published in English by Sir Harbottle Grimston. folio, London, 1669. [I. 1. 1–3.] Epitome Relationum Edvardi COKE Militis, ab Edvardo Trotmam (Gallicè.) 12mo. Londini, 1640. [F. 17. 22.]

IRELAND (Sir T.) An Abridgment in English of Sir E. Coke's Reports. 18mo. London, 1657. [D. 17. 28.]

Answere to the Preface to the Reportes of Sir Edward Coke. 4to. (Imperfect.) 16. [Ff. 7. 84.]

BULSTRODE (Edward) Reports of divers Resolutions and Judgments, in the Court of King's Bench in the time of King James I. folio, London, 1657. [I. 1. 4.]

STRANGE (Sir John) Reports of adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, from the second year of George I. to the twenty-first of George II. 2 vols. folio, London, 1755. [Q. 1. 13,14.]

CASES argued in the Court of King's Bench from the seventh to the tenth of George II. tempore Lord Chief Justice Hardwicke and Lord Lee. folio, London, 1770. [Q. 1. 12.]

BLACKSTONE (Sir William) Reports of Cases determined in the several Courts of Westminster Hall, from 1746 to 1779. [With a Preface containing some Biographical Memoirs.] 2 vols. folio, London, 1781. [A. 12. 19,20.]

BURROW (Sir James) Reports of Cases adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, from Michaelmas 30 Geo. II. to Easter Term 12 Geo. III. 5 vols. folio, London, 1771-80. [Q. 1. 15-19.]

Burrow (Sir James) A Series of the Decisions of the

Court of King's Bench upon Settlement Cases. 4to. London, 1768. [Q. 1. 30.] COWPER (Henry) Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench from Hilary Term 1774 to Trinity Term 1778. folio, London, 1783. [A. 12. 45.]

A DIGEST of adjudged Cases in the Court of King's Bench from the Revolution to the present period. folio, London, 1775. [A. 12. 31.] STAR-CHAMBER CASES, shewing what Cavses properly belong to the Cognizance of that Court. 4to. London, 1630. [M. 30. 37.]

A Decree lately made in the High Court of Starre-Chamber; and also a Confirmation of that Decree by his Sacred Maiestie. 4to. London, 1633. [N. 30. 37.]

ROBINSON (Sir Christopher) Reports of Cases determined in the High Court of Admiralty. Part I. royal 8vo. London. [Hh. 1. 37.]